In a tragic case in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahr, state-level kabaddi player Brijesh Solanki succumbed to rabies on June 28, almost three months after he was bitten by a puppy that he had rescued. The 25-year-old sportsman allegedly shrugged off the bite as an insignificant wound and did not administer the rabies vaccine.
Haunting video footage shows Brijesh in his final days, writhing in agony and twisting in pain. He suffers violent convulsions caused by rabies. In one video sequence, he can be heard howling in anguish as the lethal infection consumes his body.
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In March, Brijesh Solanki, a state level Kabbadi player, was rescuing a puppy from a drain when it bit him. He took it lightly and didn’t report. Months later, he developed rabies and died.
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Misdiagnosed as a Kabaddi Injury
His coach, Praveen Kumar, explained how Brijesh had mistaken his symptoms for a typical sports injury. “Brijesh had mistaken the pain in his arm as a normal kabaddi injury. The bite was not serious, and he didn’t consider it serious, hence he did not get vaccinated,” he said in The Times of India.
On June 26, Brijesh Solanki began to have numbness in his limbs during practice. He was initially taken to a district hospital in Bulandshahr. But since his health quickly deteriorated, his family took him to a private hospital in Noida, where doctors detected symptoms similar to rabies.
Family of Brijesh Solanki Accuses of Medical Negligence
Brijesh’s brother, Sandeep Kumar, claimed that the sportsman was refused treatment in several government hospitals before finally being admitted to Noida.
“All of a sudden, he was water phobic and was developing symptoms of rabies, but we were refused treatment at government hospitals in Khurja, Aligarh, and even Delhi. It was only in Noida that doctors told us that he was probably rabies-infected,” he was quoted by TOI.
By the time it was already too late. Brijesh succumbed to death on June 28. Brijesh was from Farana village in Bulandshahr. His death has shocked everyone in the village and left them all in despair.
